Beautiful perennial stevia is used mainly in landscape design. It blooms for a long time, maintaining decorativeness until late autumn. In the care of unpretentious, does not require garters and is able to please with lush color even a novice grower. The problem with the plant arises only among nerds, who are in no way determined by the classification of their species. Recently, several of its species have been attributed to individual genera of plants, but at the same time it is offered for sale under the same names. Without going into the subtleties of classifications, we will talk about the most popular plant species.
- Monk hemp (Eupatorium cannabinus)
- Stevia Wrinkled (Eupatorium rugosa)
- Monk purple (Eupatorium purpureum)
- Stevie spotted (Eupatorium maculatum)
- Monolith tubular (Eupatorium fistulosum)
Monk hemp (Eupatorium cannabinus)
The name of the flower received for the fact that its green part looks like a hemp leaf. Most often in the wild nature of our latitudes, you can find this type of plant. He prefers wet meadows and alders. As a cultivated plant in the gardens, the variety is mainly cultivated "Flore Pleno". Its stems reach a height of 160 cm, the flowers bloom for a long time, but after the seeds mature, the plant does not plant itself on its own. By the way, sometimes bright pink bracts are taken for its flowers, so it happens that the stems can be called terry. 
North American species are commonly used for breeding. In addition to "Flore Pleno", which is sometimes sold under the name "Plenum", the variety "Album" is popular. He gives beautiful flowers white color. Bright pink blooms also "Variegatum". It grows up to 74 cm and produces leaves with a white border.
Stevia Wrinkled (Eupatorium rugosa)
This species also has several varieties. The most popular is the stems of wrinkled varieties "Chocolate". The name he received for the leaves are almost black in color, which very favorably shade white flowers. The bush can reach a meter in height, so you should think in advance about the support and the garter.Not so dark leaves has stevie "Braunlaub". Its leaves and buds are brown. 
Monk purple (Eupatorium purpureum)
A perennial plant of this variety has bluish-green stems, reaching a height of 150 cm. Gradian purple produces thyroid inflorescences with a diameter of 20 cm. Small baskets of inflorescences can be white, purple-purple, light pink. The leaves have leaves of oval-lanceolate form, hairy and pointed. Blossom starts from mid-July and keeps bloom up to 35 days. 
Among the popular varieties can be called "Little Red" and "Little Joe". The first grows up to 100 cm in length and will delight you with wine-pink inflorescences. The second at the same height gives small pink flowers. The stevia of these varieties is frost-resistant, therefore it is suitable for growing even in the northern parts of the country.
Stevie spotted (Eupatorium maculatum)
It boasts a huge variety of decorative varieties.Among the highest is called "Atropurpureum", which stretches up to 2 m in length. Spectacular and sprawling bush stands out dark powerful stems and wine-red flowers.
"Orchard Dene" - Another high stevia spotted. Its bush grows up to one and a half meters in width, and in height it can reach 2.4 m. The leaves of the plant are green, but they have beautiful crimson longitudinal strokes. Peduncles differ in dark cranberry color, and the flowers themselves have a bright pink color and keep for a long time on the stems, decorating gardens, flower beds and front gardens. 
"Purple Bush", despite its 1.5-meter height and width up to two meters, it collapses, keeping its shape securely. The leaves also have touches on the leaves of black and raspberry color. The flowers gives lilac-pink. Among the high varieties, it is worth noting another "Carin" with pale lavender flowers, "Bartered Bride" white flowering and "Album" with gray-white flowers.
It is much easier to find on sale more compact varieties of stevia. For example, "Glutball" grows no more than 1.6 m in height, differs in lush inflorescences with pale colors. Large bluish-purple blossoms gives "Riesenschirm". It is distinguished by purple-black stems and long flowering."Big Umbrellas" produces grayish-pink inflorescences that bloom on burgundy stems.
Dark stems "Phantom" reach a height of 1.2 m. They are crowned with large inflorescences of crimson hue. Large and dense inflorescences on wine-red stems gives the variety "Gateway".
Monolith tubular (Eupatorium fistulosum)
This species of laboratory has few representatives. The most famous is the variety "Album"which grows into a trapezoid upright three-meter bush. It is often used as a background for flower arrangements in landscape design. It has white flowers and light maroon stalks, which turn pale by autumn. 
Stevia is a great plant for the garden. A variety of varieties allows you to use it as a background plant or a central part of the landscape composition.Decorative stems, leaves and flowers of various shades fit perfectly into the most intricate compositions. The advantage of the plant is that it does not require special care and blooms until late autumn.
